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Admitted: 1962, Montana; 1963, U.S. Court of Military Appeals; 1965, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. Claims Court and U.S. Supreme Court; 1967, U.S. District Court, District of Montana; 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1976, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Crow Tribal Court; Fort Peck Tribal Court; Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court

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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Farm Law; Ranch Law; Class Actions; Taxation Law; Estate Planning Law; Indian Law; Covenants Not To Compete; Employment Class Actions; Employment Law; Equal Employment Opportunity Law; Intellectual Property

Additional Information: Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Personal Jurisdiction Over Non-Residents & Montana's New Rule 4B," Montana Law Review, 1962; "Unavoidable Accident Instruction Held Reversible Error in Negligence Actions," Chapter in Book edited by Melvin Belli, 1962; "Criminal Pre-Trial Procedure in France," Tulane Law Review, 1964; "Fundamental Rights in the Soviet Union: A Comparative Approach," Pennsylvania Law Review, 1967; "Natural Law and the Ninth Amendment," Pepperdine Law Review, 1975; "A Growing Awareness of Privacy in America," Montana Law Review, 1976. Co-Author: "Truth and Individual Rights: A Comparison of United States and French Pre-Trial Procedures," American Criminal Law Quarterly, 1974. Seminar: Estate Planning for Farmers and Ranchers. Member, Youth Justice Council, 1981-1983. Member, Advisory Committee, Montana Crime Control Board, 1973-1978. Member, Montana House of Representatives, 1971-1974. Member, Montana State Senate, 1975-1986, 1991-1994. Chairman of Judiciary, State Administration, Labor, and Taxation Committees of the Montana Senate. Democratic Candidate for Congress for the Eastern District of Montana in 1976. Named, 26th most influential Montanan of the 20th Century by the Missoulian (1999). Recipient, Janet Rankin Award for Protection of Civil Liberties by the Montana Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in May of 2008.

Firm Members: Neil Enright

Firm Members: Thomas Towe

Firm Members: Jeff Turner

Firm Members: Neil Enright

Firm Members: Stephen Mackey

Firm Members: Donald Sommerfeld

Firm Members: Jeff Turner